The records in this collection were collected during Klaaren's participation in ODAF and the Open Democracy Working Group. Klaaren has donated these records with a view to opening some of the history of the processes underlying the drafting of the Promotion of Access to Information Act.

The records cover three periods of the drafting process of freedom of information legislation in South Africa: the period of constitutional drafting in which the idea of the Bill was introduced (1992-1994); the periods of presidential drafting and ODAF (1994-1998); and the period of the legislative drafting of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (1998-2000).

The collection is made up of records that provided material for 'The Sanctions Handbook' as well as records from studies that were commissioned by the Commonwealth, on how best to handle the sanctions saga. The collection also comprises records from the Southern Africa Development Coordination Council (SADCC) region as whole dating as far back as its creation. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, reports, communiques, memoranda, policy documents, articles, books, newspapers, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous records.

I have first arranged all the transcripts (A - P). In many instances these are transcripts of the audio-cassettes under T. Where possible I have tried to indicate that an audio-cassette of the interview exists, I have added 'T' after the description to indicate this. Please refer to Section T to find the audio-cassette number.

The audio-cassettes have been numerically numbered in the order that they were kept at PHT. This was done to accommodate the fact that in some instances, one cassette would have more than one interview. I have added a prefix T to the number to denote that it is a tape and the figure in brackets denotes the length of the tape in minutes. However, under T in this inventory I have arranged the list of interviewees alphabetically by surname and have attempted to group the other interviews.

Section S contains 140 edited interviews of those found under section A. These are also arranged alphabetically by surname.

Furthermore, the individual interviews under A, N and T have not been included in the index. The alphabetical arrangement is sufficient in finding the relevant interviewee

See Acknowledgments in South Africa: A Different Kind of War and Author's Notes in The Unbreakable Thread for more information concerning this collection.

Section S: The Notebook Collection is missing from the entire collection

Materials donated by Julie Frederikse in the course of SAHA's Non-racialism Project during 2015 have been processed as series U and V of this collection.

This collection includes interviews by Tony Karon with Issy and Ann Heymann (1988), Bill and Miriam Hepner (1988) and Harry Gwala (1989). Interviews by Gavin Evans with Zach de Beer (1989) and General Charles Lloyd of the State Security Council (1989).

The records in this group include the KCP Constitution, code of conduct, manifesto and background information.

The collection is divided into two parts: A. Kempton Park Negotiations and B. Transitional Executive Council. This reflects the two capacities in which the records were generated or assembled by Khalik Mayet, and the fact that they were donated to SAHA by him in 1993 and 1994 as two distant records accumulations (acquisitions 93-006,94-004).

This collection consists of books, audio/video tapes, photographs, long player records and T-shirts, all related to various solidarity movements for which Lucia Raadschelders worked.

The collection summarises the activities in which Raadschelders was involved during the years that she spent as an anti-apartheid activist, in Holland and in the Southern Africa Sub-region. These concern in particular, the things that she witnessed.

The collection of posters that Morice Smithers donated for the publication of "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s" can be found in AL2446. Ephemera donated by Smithers (t-shirts, stickers and badges) can be found in AL2540.

This collection is not a large collection, comprising of 10 archival boxes. It is also not the official NIC collection but was donated to SAHA by the Centre for Community and Labour Studies (CCLS) in Durban. Some of the material given to us by CCLS has been separated from this collection as it was clear that it constituted a separate archive, that of the South African Tin Workers' Union.

This collection includes annual reports for 1994-1996, a research report and newsletter, pamphlets, stickers and postcards.